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It began with a loud pounding at her door at 6 a.m. on the Friday before Mother’s Day, 2005.

The sight of children devouring cookies during a community ministries night initiated an unforeseen outreach for a West Michigan congrega

In Cary, Miss., more than 300 infants have been blessed with baby afghans crocheted by Anna Spender.

I’m visiting a dank, dusty hallway in the basement of our house. I don’t go there often, and the lighting is poor.

Conservative Christians in Canada are expressing cautious optimism about the outcome of the Jan. 23 federal election.

Calls Extended

From Georgetown (Ont.) Christian Reformed Church to Rev.

When heavy rains hit California at the end of 2005, most people escaped destructive flooding of their homes.

We’ve had a bunch of them lately at our house. Birthdays, anniversaries, and such. Each day is special.

Imagine yourself living in a strange country, isolated from the culture because you don’t know the language.

Public TV doesn’t often focus on the Bible, but one Christian Reformed Church member has been instrumental in changing that in the

A small meeting room in the Maniknagar slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh, grows more humid with each passing minute as 20 women pile inside its w

This column is devoted to enjoying some of the rich diversity God has blessed us with in the Christian Reformed Church.

In my personal time with the Lord, I’ve been studying about waiting on God.

Occasionally, and often tangentially, I pick up in conversations and in periodicals in the Reformed community the terms general revel

Q. Almost 91 percent of the gospel of Mark is found in Matthew and/or Luke.

Too Extreme!

With the disgusting article “Going to the Extreme” (January 2006), The Banner has definitely

Deep-Sea Forgiveness

The deepest part of the ocean in the whole world is near the Mariana Islands (in the Pacific Ocean, south

Jake noticed her the day after she moved in.

The congregation to which I belong is considering launching a building project. It’s an increasingly common circumstance.

Got an Odd Job?

In case you missed this last  month… Do you have anunusual job?

In this Banner Professor Don Oppewal observes that Christian Reformed folks tend to look only to the Bible to answer divisive is

Dear friends, I’ve found something important that I believe we need to approach with careful pastoral discernment.

On vacation. We sat in a Baptist church. The preacher held forth beneath a large round window of plain glass.